Creative Loving Spirit

Helen Seymour is a spoken-poet-word-artist-human-performance-person based in Canterbury, and the writer and performer of the shows ‘To Helen Back’ and ‘Helen Highwater’. We speak about Helen’s performance beginnings in poetry slams and the early influences which inspired her to bring an element of surprise into her work and play with audience expectations, how being onstage invited her to be and share more of who she really is, what makes the collaboration with her director work as well as it does and how she sees success as being standing by everything you do and being content with that. FOLLOW HELEN Website: http://www.whatthehelen.net Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/HeronSeasaw Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whathelens/ Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Michelle Donkin is a writer and producer and the co-founder of Brighton based Cast Iron Theatre. Our conversation begins with how childhood Michelle was inspired by Star Trek to write herself onto the bridge of the starship Enterprise before realising that exploring human relationships was more interesting than space. We talk about her time spent studying film and scriptwriting at the the National film and Television School, her move into theatre and producing and universal themes like finding your voice and creating what is authentic to you, helping others as you go and how to stay kind to yourself as you live and create. FOLLOW MICHELLE Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/@michelledonkinW FOLLOW CAST IRON THEATRE Website: https://www.castironbrighton.weebly.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/@cast_ironacts Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/castirontheatre Instagram: http://instagram.com/cast_iron_theatre Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Sophia Carr-Gomm is a filmmaker and director based in East Sussex. She is the director of short films ‘The Wider Sun’ and ‘Nobody's Darling’ as well as several music videos, all created through her production company Certain Light Films. We talk about Sophia’s background and career as an actor and how despite apparent success she felt compelled to change direction, finding a new purpose in filmmaking and directing. We also speak about her love for the collaborative nature of the filmmaking process, the mental health pressures on working as an actor and the inspirational effect you can have on others if you are working from an impassioned, healthy and enjoyable place in what you create. FOLLOW SOPHIA Website: https://sophiacarrgomm.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/@SophiaCarrGomm Insta: http://instagram.com/sophia_papaya FOLLOW CERTAIN LIGHT FILMS Insta: https://www.instagram.com/certainlightfilms/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/certainlightfilmsltd/ Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Sarah James is an artist based in Brighton. She creates artwork through drawing in mixed media, exploring birds and wildlife and architecture. In our conversation we talk about Sarah gave herself ‘the job’ of artist as a child, the beauty she finds in the ugly, dishevelled and overlooked, the importance of seeking inspiration in the work of others, the meditative and calming experience she finds in drawing and the positive effect this has on her mental health, sharing artwork online and how she gets herself unstuck. FOLLOW SARAH Insta: http://instagram.com/sarahjamesart/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/iam_sarahjames Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Hatty Jones is a writer and performer based in London, whose plays include ‘That Girl’ which is based on her experiences as a child actor. We talk about Hatty’s training as an actor and her journey to increasingly create the roles and opportunities she seeks as a performer, which has lead to her originating projects for theatre, web series and short films. We discuss writing and the practices that help her get a script written, the lessons Hatty has taken from being part of a writing group, the necessity of deadlines and rules to help get things done, and the advice she would give her younger self setting out to become a writer. FOLLOW HATTY Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Hatty_Jones Insta: https://instagram.com/hattyj0nes 'OFFSTAGE' WEB SERIES
 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCcQ9s7jcurVUqZNmEdIbkA Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Scott Lee Andrews is an artist and songwriter from Wales who has released and performed music as Exit_International, Mutation and Jaws of Deaf. We talk about growing up in a small town and finding the heroes in the alternative music culture with its big characters and musical and visual inspirations, Scott’s decision to study music production instead of pursuing going to Oxford, creating work that subverts mundane reality and pushes buttons, his growing appreciation for the fundamental power of art and music to connect with and move people, and how attention from BBC Introducing put Exit_International’s song about a petrol powered dildo on to the Radio 1 playlist. FOLLOW SCOTT Bandcamp: https://scottleeandrews.bandcamp.com Insta: https://instagram.com/scottleeandrews FOLLOW EXIT_INTERNATIONAL Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0R6Pk0StQGdN83NWJRS4VR?si=KvntSaVAQVeqzKhWyKIsog Insta: https://instagram.com/exit_international_band Twitter: https://twitter.com/exit_int_music Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ExitInternational Website: https://undergroove.bigcartel.com/artist/exit_international Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Kerra Nolan is an artist based in Victoria, Australia. She is the creator of Pop Vulture’s Cave, a brand for the freaks and geeks that offers affordable and sustainable custom tees and clothing. We speak about the origins of Kerra’s art in her teenage experience of feeling on the outside leading to exploring different narratives of popular culture and what what popular culture would look like if she made it, authenticity and the compulsion to create the work you want to see knowing it all valuable to someone else, imposter syndrome and analysis paralysis and the pressures of turning your art into a business. FOLLOW POP VULTURE Website and shop: https://www.pop-vulture.net/ Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/PopVulturesCave/ Insta: https://instagram.com/pop.vultures.cave/ FOLLOW KERRA Insta: https://instagram.com/pop.vulture.irl Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Alinah Azadeh is an artist based in East Sussex. She makes interdisciplinary work through writing, performance, working with materials and through participatory collaboration with the public and others to create installations and engagements. Our conversation moves through Alinah’s background and heritage and the poetics of spaces, the loss of her mother and the project that allowed her to tell her own story of grief through objects that invited people to share their own objects and stories of loss or endings, making art that is accessible to anyone to find something in and connect with and the importance of finding the allies with whom you can develop the work you want to offer the world. FOLLOW ALINAH Website: https://www.alinahazadeh.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alinahazadehartist Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/alinahazadeh Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Ben Pickersgill is a Brighton based music producer and DJ and part of drum and bass outfit Klax. We talk about Ben’s beginnings in finding the music that combined the things he loved, paying dues with years of producing his own stuff, the benefits and challenges of making music as part of a collective and what it takes to collaborate in a useful way, mental health in music and the pressures of staying productive and keeping up with a quickly evolving scene, the stand out moment of being picked to remix David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ and the lessons learned from playing a DJ set in Bristol which made 1000 people go quiet. FOLLOW BEN Insta: https://instagram.com/klaxben?igshid=so5rst61anc2 FOLLOW KLAX Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/klax Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/klax2020/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/25NoSiDaJAxrEQeTZES6Yh?si=kH-N-k54RWm1GRITDhdUeg Insta: https://instagram.com/klaxuk?igshid=1unzqlrr35k3r Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Dr Joel Levey, with Michelle Levey, is an early pioneer in mindfulness, contemplative science, and the science of extra-ordinary human performance. Together Joel and Michelle are founders of Wisdom at Work and The International Center for Corporate Culture and Organizational Health at InnerWork Technologies, Inc. We talk about Joel’s journey and use some of his insights to explore creativity, curiosity and compassion, to look at how we can help open the mind to all the moments of choice and creative potential we have and what are some of the practices that can help us to wake up from habit and mindlessness to being an embodied creative spirit. FOLLOW JOEL Website: http://www.wisdomatwork.com/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/wisdomatwork Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Joel-and-Michelle-Levey/184438048260908 Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leveyswisdomatwork/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/wisdomatwork/videos Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Tim Fifield is a playwright, director and actor from Horsham in Sussex. His unquenchable curiosity in people and their stories has seen him grow from painfully shy schoolboy to devise and perform ’Not What We Expected’, his one man show featuring ten different characters. We talk about fouling up an audition for the National Youth Theatre, the importance of permissiveness and play in creativity and how being uncomfortable occasionally isn’t the worst thing in the world -because the world won’t swallow you if you fail, but it will not open up to you if you don’t try. FOLLOW TIM Website: http://timfifield.com Insta: https://www.instagram.com/timothyfifield Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Phoebe Munson is an artist and illustrator from Hove, who has been publishing a new doodle each day on her Daily Doodle blog for nearly two years. She believes that creativity and art are for everyone, should be accessible to everyone and that anyone can learn creative skills with the right guidance. We talk about how drawing gave Phoebe steadiness in the chaos of a bad mental health patch, her continuing love of illustrations, comics and manga and trying to represent the complexity of life in the simplest form, what it has been like sharing her work digitally and finding an audience and how the more you share of your work and yourself the more you get back. DAILY DOODLE https://pmuink.com FOLLOW PHOEBE Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmuink Insta: https://www.instagram.com/pmuink/ Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/pmuink/ Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Tim Cook is a writer and producer from Sussex. After graduating from RADA & Royal Court Writers he set up Broken Silence Theatre, a leading Brighton based, multi-award-winning, new writing theatre company for which he is the Artistic Director. We chat about how where Tim grew up has shaped his identity and informed Voices From Home, Broken Silence Theatre’s new writing showcase for South East writers based outside London. We also cover how the fear of doing something is far worse than the reality, learning and gaining confidence through acting on instinct and being a child who directed siblings in living room theatre. ‘ADAM & EVE’ BY Tim Cook https://playdeadpress.bigcartel.com/product/adam-eve FOLLOW TIM Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/BrokenTim BROKEN SILENCE THEATRE Website: https://www.brokensilencetheatre.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brokensilencetheatre Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/brokensilencet Insta: https://www.instagram.com/brokensilencetheatre/ Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Jo Gatford is a writer from Brighton who wants to live on your bookshelf. Since winning a publishing contract for her debut novel ‘White Lies’, Jo has won awards for short her short stories and has begun working on a second novel. Feeling a lack of accessible writing groups, Jo joined forces with fellow writer and Brighton writing retreat founder Sarah Lewis, to create Writers’ HQ, providing the writing retreats and courses it turns out others need too. We hit: self belief (even if it’s just enough to learn how to improve), thickening your skin through short and flash fiction working and submissions, the guilt people feel about enabling themselves to do something creative, fostering people’s excitement to write, and the teacher who took the time to help a young Jo go through her Star Wars-inspired novel. ‘WHITE LIES’ BY JO GATFORD http://www.jogatford.com/stockists/ JO’S RECOMMENDATIONS Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) https://www.alcs.co.uk/ FOLLOW JO Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmgatford Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jogatfordauthor Website: http://www.jogatford.com WRITERS’ HQ Website: http://www.writershq.co.uk Free courses here: https://writershq.co.uk/free-writing-courses/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/writershq Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/writers_hq Insta: https://www.instagram.com/writershq/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/writers-hq-ltd/ Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

David Gilbert is a poet and a writer, who this year published a collection of his work in his pamphlet ‘Elephants {Fragile}’. Beginning with the feeling of being a late learner catching up with poetry’s form and tradition, we explore the types of poetry David has been inspired to write on his journey. Hear about the poetry that got him back into writing, the absolute value of discipline in writing and being with other great poets, the silence in his household that still urges David’s curiosity to mine for stories, the effect of digital media on publishing routes for poetry and his new venture to combine the two loves of his life: mental health and creativity. ‘ELEPHANTS {FRAGILE}’ https://www.cinnamonpress.com/index.php/hikashop-menu-for-categories-listing/product/318-elephants-fragile-david-gilbert DAVID’S RECOMMENDATIONS ‘A Writer’s Book of Days’ by Judy Reeves https://www.amazon.co.uk/Writers-Book-Days-Spirited-Companion/dp/1577319362/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1529341284&sr=8-1&keywords=a+writers+book+of+days ‘Being Alive: the sequel to Staying Alive’ http://amzn.eu/3ZrOiep ‘Summer with Monika’ by Roger McGough http://amzn.eu/2ehLxju ‘Little Johnny’s Confession’ by Brian Patten http://amzn.eu/3OZlytk FOLLOW DAVID Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/DGPoet & https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidGilbert43 Blog: https://futurepatientblog.com Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Kips Golden is a musician and producer who writes, records and releases music under the moniker of Gudjohr and earlier this year released a new album ‘In Between The Blinks’ (which listeners of this podcast may already be familiar with...) We speak about how improving what you create means incidentally evolving new skills and how Kips followed his curiosity from writing and performing to recording and mixing and mastering his work. We also take in balancing earning a living to having the space to create, gaining lyrical inspiration from a wrestling podcast and the NME review of his work that Kips has never actually seen. ‘IN BETWEEN THE BLINKS’ https://gudjohr.bandcamp.com KIPS’S RECOMMENDATIONS: ‘Arrested Development’ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367279/ ‘The Drought’ by JG Ballard https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12362430-the-drought Dutch Uncles https://open.spotify.com/artist/77bjO3iNEdkJfszgcf6YnB FOLLOW GUDJOHR Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Gudjohr SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/gudjohr Last.fm: http://www.last.fm/music/Gudjohr YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/theclutterclan Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/artist/2D7hBQFxRC5HzbXcu1T7Re Insta: https://www.instagram.com/gudjohr/ Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Amani Zardoe is a filmmaker and actor based in London, who as well as performing for stage, film and television also writes, directs and produces short films under the production banner of HeavyWait. We speak about finding your voice as a storyteller and staying true to yourself in the work you choose to create, how Amani values collaboration, learning, play, exploration in the experience of working with others, and the belief that what we make doesn’t have to be perfect, but you have to finish it, learn from it and move on to make something new. ‘MISS J’ http://www.heavywait.co.uk/miss-j/ ‘OFFSTAGE’ http://www.heavywait.co.uk/offstage/ AMANI’S RECOMMENDATIONS -‘Frances Ha’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBn5dgXFMis -‘Five Broken Cameras’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_93nOqwmhU -Cannes Film Festival Selection https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/selection/competition-1 FOLLOW AMANI Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/AmaniZardoe Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Annie Burrows is an artist, who uses drawing as a beginning to explore and respond to with different materials and processes to create work, which she exhibits in the South-East. We talk about what inspire her curiosity, how drawing is a way to think about and pay attention to something which invites new possibilities, the intangible internal process of making something and how you begin, as well as thoughts on confidence, imposter syndrome and empowering yourself to get your work out into the world. ‘EXAMPLE ON TOUR’ (EXHIBITION) 3-15 JULY 2018 http://www.exampleart.co.uk/exhibitions-2/ 'X MARKS THE SPOT' (SHORT FILM) https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=SpybbCymITo ANNIE'S RECOMMENDATIONS Drawing Room https://drawingroom.org.uk - Lady Bird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNi_HC839Wo FOLLOW ANNIE Website: http://www.annieburrows.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bangles29 Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Chelsea Newton-Mountney is a theatre maker, who makes things as an actor, producer and director. She develops work with, among others, PopHeart Productions, which she co-founded with Rich Foyster. We talk here about what improvisation teaches about how to work creatively and collaboratively, how Chelsea saw she could marry her love of making things with creating theatre and the practices and beliefs that help her along her way. 'BLUE SKY THINKING' http://www.sweetvenues.com/events/blue-sky-thinking/ ‘AM I F#*KABLE?’ https://www.popheartuk.com/aif/ CHELSEA'S RECOMMENDATIONS - Brian Eno’s John Peel Lecture https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2zLnrq1Zt04 - Keri Smith, author of ‘Wreck This Journal’ among others http://www.kerismith.com/bio - Michael Atavar ’How To Be An Artist’ http://www.kioskpublishing.com/product/how-to-be-an-artist FOLLOW POPHEART Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/PopHeartUK Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Pete Strong is a writer, poet and comedic performer based in Brighton. He talks about how he got into performing and stand-up comedy, the moment he began telling the truth onstage, and the important relationship between what he makes and mental health and self-care. His new show 'Shame' runs at the 2018 Brighton Fringe 20th-24th May. 'SHAME' BY PETE STRONG www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/shame-125189/ PETE'S RECOMMENDATIONS Reading: - Octavia Butler's Parable series - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson - The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff. Watching: - Marvel's Agents of Shield Experience: - Simon Munnery - The Wreath www.showandtelluk.com/event/simon-mu…in-progress-2/ - Bridget Riley www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/20…chedelic-energy - Austin Osman Spare creators.vice.com/en_us/article/xw…st-hitler-london Listen: - North Sea Radio Orchestra - Julian Cope - Coil - Cardiacs FOLLOW PETE Twitter: mobile.twitter.com/petestrong Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: https://gudjohr.bandcamp.com